30 October, 2015

The endless humanitarian disaster in the Mediterranean sea grave

Journeys
of death for thousands of desperate people, situation beyond critical

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Another ten
refugees, including five children, were found dead on Thursday in the
sea area north of Lesvos. A little girl, one year old, was
hospitalized in intensive and died on Thursday night. It is still
unclear the number of people missing since the shipwreck on
Wednesday. Some sources speak for more than thirty people.

The total
number of victims of the shipwrecks in October 28th in Lesbos, Samos
and Agathonisi is eighteen, of which twelve are children. The lurid
list is constantly growing, while the images of children who are
struggling to stay alive haunt the divided Europe, which still
discuss the quotas of the number of refugees for each country.

On
Wednesday, the Greek coast guard managed to rescue more than 240
refugees from the shipwreck off coast Molyvos, Lesvos. The
authorities identified two children who were unconscious and
transported in critical condition to the hospital. The boy, aged six
years, died immediately, while the girl, one year old, ultimately
died on Thursday night, although doctors were able initially to keep
her alive .

Another two
children and a man were lost in a shipwreck at the Gatos headland in
Samos. An infant still missing. A five year old girl found dead in
Karlovasi, Samos. Two more men missing. In Agathonisi, two children
and one woman died, while a child still missing.

In 48 hours,
from Tuesday morning to Thursday morning, a total 925 refugees have
been rescued in 20 separate incidents in Lesvos, Chios, Samos and
Kos. More than 5,000 immigrants and refugees arrived in Mytilene in
the last 24 hours, despite the adverse weather, while executives of
the recording and certification center estimate that this figure may
even reach 6,000. Sources from the police station on the island say
that in the port of Mytilene remain 8,763 people who are expected to
leave in the coming hours to Piraeus and Kavala.

The shocking
pictures from Lesbos, are indicative of the drama that shakes the
region with unprecedented refugee crisis, stated Greek government
officials. They stressed that the Greek government continuously
taking steps for the hospitality of these people, identification and
their relocation. They also said that this struggle is also a
struggle for the highlighting of the humanitarian face of Europe.

Meanwhile, according to the UN refugee agency, refugee
and migrant arrivals in Greece are expected to hit the 400,000 mark
soon, despite adverse weather conditions. Greece remains by far the
largest single entry point for new sea arrivals in the Mediterranean,
followed by Italy with 131,000 arrivals so far in 2015.

With the new figures from Greece, the total number of
refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year is nearly
530,000. In September, 168,000 people crossed the Mediterranean, the
highest monthly figure ever recorded and almost five times the number
in September 2014.

Two more shipwrecks occurred at dawn today in the Dodecanese. Eighteen dead already, including at least nine children.

In the sea area between Kalolimnos and Kalymnos, coast guard pulled 14 bodies and rescued 138 people. Research is ongoing for missing persons, the exact number of them has not been identified.

At the same time, in the sea area north of the port of Rhodes, a coast guard vessel has collected six refugees and three dead, three others missing. Today's incidents come as a continuation of shipwrecks that occurred off Lesvos.

Children unconscious in the arms of their parents fought to stay alive. Eleven people lost their lives, among them four children. 242 people were rescued and 40 still missing.

1 comment:

How can anyone possibly spend time worrying over the fate of thousands of refugees when the fate of the entire world hinges on what we're going to do about climate change. The lives of a few thousand innocent men, women and children matter not in the face of this looming disaster that our grandchildren will be forced to deal with in 100 years or so, when we'll probably all be under water anyhow, no matter what we do.

All the time and money being wasted over these people who are probably all terrorists anyhow could be spent on closing down oil wells, junking gas guzzling cars, and seeding the atmosphere with CO2 killing chemicals. After all, what does it matter if the children of worthless Moslems die tomorrow, so long as we can buy our unborn grandchildren an extra month or so of respite from this looming catastrophe.